Quite right, I'd forgotten that. Pity it's not used any longer.

Some years ago when I worked for Cheddar Caves I went to enormous trouble to develop a training route, now known as Castle's Great Hairy Ring (not named by me!) in the Black Cat Chamber of Gough's Cave to address this very problem. The first part had been bolted by Andy Sparrow and I extended it...

Is the Hunters opening on July 4th? I suppose it is, just checking, got some friends visiting. Thanks

A great many years ago when I was at school in High Wycombe, I found a copy of this book in the school library and was fascinated by it. I became determined to try out caving and later, when working on a dairy farm near Wycombe, I attended an introductory course at Whernside Manor. I remember...

My old copy of Barrington and Stanton has some advertisements for businesses of long ago. Casswells of Midsomer Norton, The Bivouac of Matlock Bath, Ellis Brigham - I think we've had that one, and Clam Products of Liversedge.

I had a quick look this morning and someone has done a good job of clearing it up.

It was really obvious when I saw it! Did you clear it up Sid?

Did anyone sort this out? If not I may be able to make a diversion there tomorrow morning.

Someone's had a party in the quarry, there's a heap of bottles on the right hand section as  you go in towards Quarter Way Up Hole. On the right  against the face near the start. I didn't have a bag or anything, I'll take one next time.  Maybe someone will see this and clear the mess up.

Belt and krab outside the Tradesman's Entrance to Goatchurch on 9/6/19.

No one has mentioned the caves at Beachy Head. I've never seen them myself but I know one of them was a fair-sized affair, a long phreatic passage. I've a vague memory of an article in Descent, probably from the 80s, perhaps someone with the index could look it up. I think the exploration was...

Fascinating, thanks for finding that, I'd not seen it before. I've remembered where I saw the picture I'm thinking of, it was in a collection of old photographs taken in and around Cheddar but I don't have a copy. I bet someone on the forum does. It was much better quality than the Bamforth one...

Thanks for that. There are written records back to 1736 and doubtless many visited it before then, but there seems to be little or nothing recorded about the showcave project. There is a photograph of a lady in her long dress sitting at the top of the Giants Stairs but I can't find that either...

A colleague and I were discussing the date that Goatchurch became a short-lived showcave. He thought it was 1901, I thought I'd read an article saying it was later, 1913. However, I can't find the article, it's not in the UBSS Proceedings but the article giving 1901 is. Did I dream it or make it...

What a refreshing and enlightened attitude, such a contrast to some of the goings-on with Mendip.